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Required reading: The books that students read in 28 countries around the world

Dec 7, 2016  + 

Required reading: The books that students read in 28 countries around the world

Afghanistan

Quran
Albania

Kronikë në gur (1971) by Ismail Kadare
Chronicle in Stone

Australia

Tomorrow, When the War Began (1993) by John Marsden

Austria

Faust (1787) by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Bosnia; Serbia

Na drini ćuprija (1945) by Ivo Andrić
The Bridge on the Drina

Brazil

Morte e vida Severina (1955) by João Cabral de Melo Neto
The Death of a Severino

Bulgaria

Under the Yoke (1894) by Ivan Vazov

Canada

The Wars (1977) by Timothy Findley

Chile

Sub Terra (1904) by Baldomero Lillo

China

Analects by Confucius

Colombia

Cien años de Soledad (1967) by Gabriel García Márquez
100 Years of Solitude

Cyprus

The Murderess (1903) by Alexandros Papadiamantis

Egypt

The Days (1935) by Taha Hussein

Finland

Seitsemän veljestä (1870) by Aleksis Kivi
Seven Brothers

Germany

Tagebuch der Anne Frank (1947)
The Diary of Anne Frank

Ghana; Nigeria

Things Fall Apart (1958) by Chinua Achebe

Indonesia

Laskar Pelangi (2005) by Andrea Hirata
Rainbow Troop

India

Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments With Truth (1927-1929) by Mohandas K. Gandhi

Iran

Poems by writers such as HafizSa’AddiFerdowsiRumi and Khayyam

Ireland

Ice Man: the Adventures of an Irish Antarctic Hero (2010) by Michael Smith

Italy

I Promessi Sposi (1827) by Alessandro Manzoni
The Betrothed

Pakistan

The Reluctant Fundamentalist (2007) by Mohsin Hamid

Philippines

Noli Me Tangere (1887) by Jose Rizal
Touch Me Not

Russia

War and Peace (1869) by Leo Tolstoy

US

To Kill A Mockingbird (1960) by Harper Lee

Vietnam

Truyện Kiều (1820) by Nguyễn Du

The Tale of Kiu, the poem

 

surveillance in schools

https://www.edsurge.com/news/2019-10-22-high-tech-surveillance-comes-at-high-cost-to-students-is-it-worth-it

The phrase “school-to-prison pipeline” has long been used to describe how schools respond to disciplinary problems with excessively stringent policies that create prison-like environments and funnel children who don’t fall in line into the criminal justice system. Now, schools are investing in surveillance systems that will likely exacerbate existing disparities.

number of tech companies are capitalizing on the growing market for student surveillance measures as various districts and school leaders commit themselves to preventing acts of violence. Rekor Systems, for instance, recently announced the launch of OnGuard, a program that claims to “advance student safety” by implementing countless surveillance and “threat assessment” mechanisms in and around schools.

While none of these methods have been proven to be effective in deterring violence, similar systems have resulted in diverting resources away from enrichment opportunities, policing school communities to a point where students feel afraid to express themselves, and placing especially dangerous targets on students of color who are already disproportionately mislabeled and punished.ProPublica

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more on surveillance in this IMS blog
https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims?s=surveillance

tech in higher ed

https://www.edsurge.com/news/2019-01-02-teaching-with-technology-in-higher-ed-start-with-relationship-building

Pivoting one’s pedagogical focus to relationship-building thus demands a learning process about the self and the students, and there are practical steps an instructor can consider when embarking on this paradigm shift.

1. Provide opportunities for students to reflect.

2. Prepare to learn about yourself and your students.

3. Leverage partners.

4. Provide opportunities for yourself to reflect.

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more on ed technology in this IMS blog
https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims?s=educational+technology

Learning analytics, student satisfaction, and student performance

Learning analytics, student satisfaction, and student performance at the UK Open University

https://www.tonybates.ca/2018/05/11/11025/
Rienties and his team linked 151 modules (courses) and 111,256 students with students’ behaviour, satisfaction and performance at the Open University UK, using multiple regression models.

There is little correlation between student course evaluations and student performance

The design of the course matters

Student feedback on the quality of a course is really important but it is more useful as a conversation between students and instructors/designers than as a quantitative ranking of the quality of a course.  In fact using learner satisfaction as a way to rank teaching is highly misleading. Learner satisfaction encompasses a very wide range of factors as well as the teaching of a particular course. 

this research provides quantitative evidence of the importance of learning design in online and distance teaching. Good design leads to better learning outcomes. We need a shift in the power balance between university and college subject experts and learning designers resulting in the latter being treated as at least equals in the teaching process.

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more on learning analytics in this IMS blog
https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims?s=learning+analytics

AI Ethics, Policy and Governance

https://hai.stanford.edu/?sf111258978=1

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more on ethics in this IMS blog
https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims?s=ethics

Standom

October 17, 20195:00 AM ET

https://www.npr.org/2019/10/07/767903704/the-2010s-social-media-and-the-birth-of-stan-culture

a small social phenomenon known as “standom.”

While some say the term is a combination of “fan” and “stalker,” “stan” was first coined in 2000 when Eminem dropped a twisted allegory in a song called “Stan,” about a man who was pushed to the edge when his idol wouldn’t answer his fan mail.

The most avid fan bases often have their own labels. Lady Gaga has her Little Monsters. Justin Bieber fans are Beliebers. Nicki Minaj has the Barbz. Beyonce has the BeyHive. And, if motivated enough, stans that congregate on social media actually can change the trajectory of their artist’s path — and the life of anyone who stands in the way.

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